Articles about 1954 Television Act

You probably can’t get the newly launched commercial television yet, but here’s how it works

Part Nine: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television

The last-ditch effort to prevent commercial television from being born

In 1980, Jack Tinker, theatre critic of the Daily Mail, turns his unsympathetic eye to the launch of ITV in 1955

An introduction to Independent Television in 1966

The Robert Fraser Lectures [1/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority describes the foundations of ITV in 1955

CREATING INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: How vague legislation created a pin-sharp television system

Three regions, four contractors. How? Why? asks Richard G Elen

The Television Act 1954 didn’t create ITV – the genius of Sir Kenneth Clark did that